Earlier this month, Universal Potash (PINK:UPCO) had enjoyed the attention of active promoting parties. Now, it has captured their eyes again. Yesterday, at least $50 thousand were invested in a new promotional wave, which is expected to give UPCO stock a boost today.

The investor awareness program comes hard on the heels of the latest corporate update issued on Monday. According to the release, UPCO was finally ready to start a full-blown exploration program on its Uta-based Paradox basin. As much as the news sounded fairly promising, investors only gave it a lukewarm response. UPCO stock only gained 7% in value, closing at $0.15 per share. The turnover registered a two-fold increase over last Friday session shifting more than 780 thousand shares of UPCO stock. Thus, it marked a 377% surge in comparison with the daily average trading volume.

As it seems, certain stockholders are quite interested in the upward trend UPCO stock has been following for four consecutive sessions now. Given that the company itself has recently been churning out positive updates, the advertising campaign stands a good change of capitalizing on the momentum that UPCO has gathered on the stock market. [BANNER]

Universal Potash Corp. claims to be a natural resource explorer focused on properties deemed to be rich in mineral deposits such as potash and uranium. Although the company occupies the OTC Pink limited information tier, it has already filed its quarterly report covering Q4 of 2010. The document shows both a negative working capital of $130 thousand and a three-month loss of $288K. The total loss accumulated since the company’s inception ten years ago amounts to $3.13 million.

In spite of the unsatisfactory financial picture drawn above, there might still be a bright future lying ahead of the Washington-based corporation. Provided that its properties really turn out to be abundant with potash, UPCO will definitely strike it rich in a trice. Until all that has become a reality, however, every single UPCO stockholder runs the risk of being diluted. Why? Most obviously, the company will need additional capital to keep its exploration activities going. In addition, it still disposes of some 220 million shares that have yet to be issued.

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When you are smart enough, when you are doing the right thing and have a huge success, there is no way you remain unnoticed. After all, who does not love winners?

The shares of Great Panther Silver Limited (TSE:GPR) made a great impression over the last 1.5 years on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). Back in early September 2009, the stock was worth no more than $0.70. It was then, when Great Panther grabbed for the first time the attention of the well-known Lebed.biz newsletter.

Mr. Lebed was bold enough to declare GPR silver pick â„–1 for the next decade, pick â„–1 for 2010 and â„–5 for 2011. Reality and facts proved convincingly that Mr. Lebed made no mistake.

Since September 2009, the shares have gone 506% up. Yesterday, they finished the session at $4.24, gaining 4.7% from the previous close. Though the stock is currently priced lower than in the beginning of the month, when GPR noted a 13-year high at $4.90, its performance continues to be solid.

It is hardly surprising then, that Great Panther enjoys promoters’ attention again. In fact, it was high time this happened. Finally, GPR has begun appearing in stock newsletters and trader’s boxes again.

The company has been more than glorified in several Wall Street Grand reports (WSG club alerts) over the last days. They depict Panther as “a huge undiscovered and undeveloped pick” with the potential to become “a massive winner”, and praise the company’s “high-tech mill and spectacular mine”.

In addition to these words, we could mention several other positive factors and developments:

• In early February, Panther was granted permission for listing on the NYSE Amex stock exchange in the USA – you can see a live video of this event here;

• The price of silver has been rising over the last months;

• As stated in the company’s March 2011 presentation, Panther has 23% gold as a by-product and might benefit when gold-silver ratio increases. You can learn many other interesting details about the company from its video presentation;

• Panther has been regularly participating in plenty of investment conferences around the world and is determined to do so in the future too. This helps the company attract traders’ attention around the Globe;

• Two weeks ago, Panther was able to pay off a $4M long-term debt – this is certainly some financial relief;

• The company looks rather stable financially – it reported substantial sales revenues of $13.8M for the last quarter of 2010, an increase of almost 24% over the previous three-month period.

If there is anything negative we could say about Panther, this is probably the rather humble net income of $0.78M that it generated for the Q4 of 2010.

To this, we might finally add that the company looks overestimated by traders – its market value of $513M is well beyond the $36M net worth of the business as shown by Panther’s balance sheet.

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As much as good PR generally helps companies build a positive reputation among investors, sometimes it has adverse impact on their stock. Homeland Resources Ltd. (PINK:HMLA) is a perfect example, proving that excessive corporate updates do not necessarily contribute to the benefit of stockholders.

Following a seemingly lethargic three-month period, HMLA only recently started flooding the Internet with new press releases. Last Friday, its stock delivered negative market performance again. It went down 8%, closing at $0.22 per share. As far as the volume is concerned, 72 thousand shares of HMLA stock changed hands yesterday, marking a 33% increase over the day before. As usual, such an abrupt movement immediately attracted the attention of promoters. An army of e-mail alerts had reached investors by the end of the week. At present, the advertising campaign has been estimated to cost at least $78 thousand. [BANNER]

Homeland Resources Ltd. claims to be occupying the gold and silver ore industry. Judging from its corporate description, however, the company appears to specialize in the development of both oil and natural gas reserves, too. Although the new batch of updates revealed to the general public hint at some really intense drilling activity going on, HMLA still has a long way to go before reaching a milestone. Not to mention the lack of a corporate website, which nowadays sounds pretty weird even for a pink sheet company.

Despite all the negative circumstances mentioned above, HMLA should be given credit for its transparent policy. The company is a regular SEC filer and therefore occupies the OTCQB market tier. It filed its latest Q3 report ten days ago. As of Jan. 31, 2011, HMLA had accumulated:

At first sight, the financial state of HMLA does not look as stable as its stockholders would like. Nevertheless, the company is still in its exploration stage. Provided that HMLA comes across properties that are abundant with deposits of oil and natural gas, the company could definitely strike it rich to the delight of its most avid supporters.

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